M3 Grant and M4 Sherman Family of Vehicles

[wandering enginner]

This will be my next effort.  M10 chassis with applique armor and the T23 turret with long M1 76mm/L55 gun.  I believe the 76mm gun Shemans used the M1A1 gun which was shorter by 5 caliber lengths.  If our British Allies could figure out how to mount a 17 pdr in a regular 75 mm gun turret, I figure that Detroit could work the long 76 into the T23.

[philp]

Love Hobart's Funnies.  Been wanting to do them for a long time but debating between 72nd and 35th.  With the new kits in larger scale may go that way.
Course, if I wanted to do them in 76th can do the lot and may have to break down and go that route unless Dragon takes them on in 72nd.

Love the Sherman AVRE and Firefly Easy 8.

[nighthunter]

My Turn, lol!

[James W.]

I have been enjoying a fresh viewing of John Belushi movies, including '1941'..
The M3 wading through the paint & whatnot factories sequence was a riot, & got me wondering..

Has anyone done, or seen - a line-up of '1941' movie reference M3's - as they appeared with changed colours?

[ysi_maniac]

Two syrian possibilities.

[ysi_maniac]

Here, in first drawing, I combine the turret of M10 and the hull of M4A3E8, my favourite components in the vast and complicated (at least, for me) field of US armor during WWII. Second is a conversion in a kind of recce or command version, with gun reduced to 50 mm or so.

[ysi_maniac]

M18 with M4A3E8 turret.

[ysi_maniac]

Swapping turrets between T-55 and Super Sherman M-51

[ysi_maniac]

To install this french 105mm gun in some other WWII turrets could be a good Idea IMO.

[ysi_maniac]

May be too tall, but, why not?

[scooter]

Looks like some unholy tank designer's nightmare of a test bed lurking the ranges of APG (Aberdeen Proving Ground), like the M6A2E1

[ysi_maniac]

^^^^ Right! 

[jcf]

M6A2E1 needs an 37mm turret on the front and a turret with a .50 MG on top
of the main turret.



Good page on the M6A2E1:
http://www.tankarchives.ca/2016/03/m6a2e1-heavy-clownshoe.html

[Rick Lowe]

M6A2E1 needs an 37mm turret on the front and a turret with a .50 MG on top
of the main turret.

M-48 style or the twin-AA prototype one? Or a Maxson?! 

[Weaver]

Here's a thing I've never heard of before: the Degem Yud. This was an Israeli prototype of an M50 Sherman with it's hull cut down for a lower profile, this being made possible by the replacement of the radial engine by a V12 diesel.